WRITINGS BY THE MOTHER
© Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust
Perfection
Mixing will not make you perfect--perfection must come from within.
1 March 1936
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Perfection is not a maximum or an extreme. It is an equilibrium and a harmonisation.
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Perfection is not a summit, it is not an extreme. There is no extreme: whatsoever you do, there is always the possibility of something better and exactly this possibility of something better is the very meaning of progress.
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Perfection is eternal; it is only the resistance of the world that makes it progressive.
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It may be said that perfection is attained, though it remains progressive, when the receptivity from below is equal to the force from above which wants to manifest.
3 January 1951
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You cannot expect anybody to be perfect unless you are perfect yourself. And to be perfect means to be exactly as the Lord wants you to be.
3 June 1958
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Perfection is all that we want to become in our highest aspiration.
9 October 1966
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Thirst for perfection: constant and multiple aspiration.
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